Testing covariance structure in multivariate models: Application to family disease data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 442, 1998, Pages 518-525

  Whittemore, Alice S ^a   Halpern, Jerry ^a   Gong, Gail ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Covariance structure; Exponential tilting; Familial ovarian cancer; Genetic epidemiology; Goodness of fit; Multivariate regression model; Quadratic exponential distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032393916     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473701     Document Type: Article

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